Schedules
The Schedules page provides a common interface to schedule data extraction, analysis and archival tasks. You can also schedule a system downtime if you need to make the system unavailable to users temporarily.
This page displays the list of scheduled analyses, scheduled archive tasks, scheduled extraction tasks and reporting tasks on their respective panels with details such as the task creator, task type, the connections selected while scheduling an extraction or an analysis, task status and the start time of the task.
The date and time displayed on this page is according to the time zone defined on the Preferences page.
For scheduled archive tasks, the Connection column refers to the archive connection, that is, the database where the data will be archived. As a signed in user, you can view only those tasks that are scheduled by you. Only an administrator can view the tasks scheduled by other users.
If multiple connections are used in a scheduled task, the Connection column displays the connection as a hyperlink. Click the hyperlink to view all connections selected for that task.
By default, the Schedules page is displayed as a grid view where tasks are displayed by task name. However, tasks can be viewed based on date and time through the Calendar view.
The icons displayed next to a task indicates the status of the task. Hover the mouse on the icon to know the status.
This page enables you to perform the following actions:
- Search for a scheduled task
- Create an extraction schedule
- Create an analysis schedule
- Create a system downtime schedule
- Create an archive schedule
- View the latest status of
the tasks
Click the
icon to refresh the status of the tasks displayed on this page - View the details of report
subscription
The Schedules page lists the reports that are scheduled through the Reports page. The Remarks column on the Schedules page displays the location where the output files are stored.
- Stop a task
To stop a scheduled task, select the check box next to the task to be stopped and click the
icon. - Delete a scheduled task
When you delete a schedule task, all the corresponding tasks that are already in queue or are in progress, will get executed as is. Tasks that are in progress cannot be deleted.
Note: If analyses are scheduled based on an extraction, and if that extraction is deleted from the Schedules page, the system displays a warning message informing you that all the analyses based on that extraction will be deleted.- If reports are scheduled based on an extraction or an analysis, and if the extraction or the analysis is deleted from the Schedules page, the system displays a warning message informing you that all the reports based on that extraction or analysis will be deleted.
- If you delete a schedule, all the corresponding tasks, are already in queue or are in progress status of the deleted schedule , will get executed .
- Download data
Click the
icon to download the information on this page to a CSV format. Information in the CSV file is displayed in the default format even if it has been sorted on this page. The date and time information downloaded is the application server time, even if the information is downloaded at a different time zone.